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Schools & Learning
The First Day of First Grade at a Title I School in Memphis
At Alcy Elementary in the Orange Mound neighborhood of Memphis, the first day of first grade arrives, as it does every August, with a line of yellow buses, a hot wind off the parking lot, and a teacher named Talisha Brown standing at the door of Room 112.
Schools & Learning
A Public-School Kindergarten in East Montpelier, Vermont
At East Montpelier Elementary, the kindergarten teacher, Hannah Berube, has been doing the same job in the same building for nineteen years. The Tuesday in April begins, as it always does, at 7:50.